Astronomy

An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have studied the chemical composition of 50 protoplanetary-disk forming regions in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, and found that despite being in the same…

Machine-learning methods lead to discovery of rare "quadruply imaged quasars" that can help solve cosmological puzzlesCredit: The GraL Collaboration With the help of machine-learning techniques, a team of astronomers has discovered a…

A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, using coordinated observations of the Crab pulsar in a number of frequencies, have discovered that the "giant radio pulses" which it emits include an increase in…

Gemini North observations help set rotational speed limit for brown dwarfsCredit: Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva, P. Marenfeld, NASA/JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt (IPAC). Music: zero-project - The…

Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 8, 2021-While attention has been focused on the Perseverance rover that landed on…

Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) A global science collaboration using data from NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has…

Credit: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain several…

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The…

Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its original birthplace further awayCredit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick …

Gemini North spectroscopically resolves a pair of quasars that are closer together than any yet discovered in the distant UniverseCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/J. Pollard Music: Stellardrone -…

The 2021 Drake Awards mark the first time this SETI Institute award has simultaneously recognized the achievements of two people, a testament to the extraordinary contributions each has made to SETI ResearchCredit: SETI Institute April…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a…

Credit: Kyoto Sangyo University The world's first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of its active life revealed that the nucleus has a diameter of 800 meters and is covered with large grains of…

ANN ARBOR--We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research finds that may be more true than we previously thought. The first study, led by U-M researcher Jie (Jackie) Li and…

Credit: Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during last fall's sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the…

The fellowship provides exceptional scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational and experimental research in planetary astronomyCredit: Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Ellen Price, a…

Record-breaking gamma rays bathe the Milky Way in an energetic hazeCredit: HEASARC / LAMBDA / NASA / GFSC An enormous telescope complex in Tibet has captured the first evidence of ultrahigh-energy gamma rays spread across the Milky…

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help…

Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. But in a new study, University of Copenhagen…

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to…